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If I bought an excellent leather jacket in Turkey, what can I buy in Hurghada and where? I'm interested in leather or a short mink coat. Is it worth it to take money with you or not? I didn’t take much money to Turkey at one time, then I regretted it ... I still wear a jacket, I haven’t even worn a similar one, the quality is super!
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Consumer goods in Egypt are of extremely poor quality. What we usually bring home - hookahs and tobacco for hookahs (prices are many times lower than ours), loose hibiscus, "papyri", if they come across of normal quality. For the first time, they bothered and brought cups, plates and towels with ankhs, pyramids and other pharaohs for souvenirs. After I saw the same towels in our METRO for the same price, and you don’t even have to drag it, they scored this thankless task. Moreover, all the acquaintances themselves are already running around in Egypt. Leather wallets, bookmarks and other small things with ethnic local motifs at first glance are nothing, but when you start to choose - everything is a marriage (by our standards), the glue got out there, it was cut off crookedly. Some tourists carry aromatic oils. I personally get migraines and nausea from them, but some like it.
If you take oil, take it in the city, in a shop where you go yourself, and not on excursions or with a guide, the price difference can be up to 10 times. The same applies to papyri. Well, "arafat" shawls are cheap and thin cotton shawls for women. These are the cheapest in Luxor, where the buses stop near the Nile, the traders themselves run around the bus.
If you take oil, take it in the city, in a shop where you go yourself, and not on excursions or with a guide, the price difference can be up to 10 times. The same applies to papyri. Well, "arafat" shawls are cheap and thin cotton shawls for women. These are the cheapest in Luxor, where the buses stop near the Nile, the traders themselves run around the bus.
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answered 15 years ago
I agree, you won't buy anything big there. Mostly souvenirs and local jokes, described above. Money is needed only for excursions.
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answered 15 years ago
In shops on departure in Hurghada, you can buy inexpensive cool tee-shorts (super quality, 100% cotton), original silver jewelry, interior items. But if there is time
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answered 15 years ago
we bought silver pendants on chains and turquoise rings ($10-20), a very pleasant memory of EGYPT. Gold (genuine) cartouches with your names are very effective.
Souvenir gifts: T-shirts with EMBROIDERY in the form of a map of EGYPT and with all sorts of jokes (8-20 dollars)
In the markets of DOMINA CORAL BAY and in the OLD MARKET they bought a lot of beautiful CRUSHABLE STOOLS (turquoise) for 5-10 dollars - Very successful small purchases delight us, our relatives and friends for many years.
In the form of a gift-discount, we are given all kinds of wonderful singing camels, magnets
IN WINTER WE TRANSPORT delicious STRAWBERRY at a price of 1 USD / almost a kg (and even cheaper in Egyptian money)
in hand luggage, 3-4 packages for treats.
Souvenir gifts: T-shirts with EMBROIDERY in the form of a map of EGYPT and with all sorts of jokes (8-20 dollars)
In the markets of DOMINA CORAL BAY and in the OLD MARKET they bought a lot of beautiful CRUSHABLE STOOLS (turquoise) for 5-10 dollars - Very successful small purchases delight us, our relatives and friends for many years.
In the form of a gift-discount, we are given all kinds of wonderful singing camels, magnets
IN WINTER WE TRANSPORT delicious STRAWBERRY at a price of 1 USD / almost a kg (and even cheaper in Egyptian money)
in hand luggage, 3-4 packages for treats.
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answered 15 years ago
Oh, by the way, strawberries! And mango at any time of the year!
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answered 15 years ago
And, of course, do not deny yourself a pleasant experience - at the SPA hotel, a body massage with oils on the seashore to the sound of a wave. 30-40 minutes 10-20 dollars price Refuse ... go to another)
We buy good quality ARAFATKI made of cotton,
PAREO with the image of fish of the RED SEA 8-15 dollars,
exotic national tunics made of cotton with embroidery will be useful as beachwear or home wear.
When the three of us went shopping in the center of the hotel-city DOMINA CORAL BAY, the real show began. There is an opinion that merchants love foreign buyers ... BUT: when we were there, about five foreigners went into the trading zone and made a couple of purchases without bargaining, buying 2 T-shirts for 10 euros, and we bought with a bargain for their own 5 dollars, but we bought from him souvenirs, clothes and all sorts of things (if there is a good assortment and prices) at once for 100! dollars...
But they idolize these foreigners who make 1-2 purchases for the whole holiday. When you explain this to the Arabs, they already have a different attitude and are waiting for us again and again. Look at the assortment and say that you will buy for a good amount, but cheaper.
We buy good quality ARAFATKI made of cotton,
PAREO with the image of fish of the RED SEA 8-15 dollars,
exotic national tunics made of cotton with embroidery will be useful as beachwear or home wear.
When the three of us went shopping in the center of the hotel-city DOMINA CORAL BAY, the real show began. There is an opinion that merchants love foreign buyers ... BUT: when we were there, about five foreigners went into the trading zone and made a couple of purchases without bargaining, buying 2 T-shirts for 10 euros, and we bought with a bargain for their own 5 dollars, but we bought from him souvenirs, clothes and all sorts of things (if there is a good assortment and prices) at once for 100! dollars...
But they idolize these foreigners who make 1-2 purchases for the whole holiday. When you explain this to the Arabs, they already have a different attitude and are waiting for us again and again. Look at the assortment and say that you will buy for a good amount, but cheaper.
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answered 15 years ago
it is necessary to conduct marketing for large stores (with a good reputation) in NAAME BAY or OLD MARKET and choose at an affordable price, making sure of the quality
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answered 15 years ago
sorry, you are going to HURGHADA, so find out the prices in GOOD LARGE JEWELERY OF SAKKALA OLD TOWN
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answered 15 years ago
You yourself cannot distinguish gold if you are not a specialist. Our jewelry factory does not even accept items bought in "good" stores in Hurghada and Sharm as scrap - too dirty gold. You can buy some trinket just as a keepsake, but this is not a valuable thing.
LANGIS, T-shirts are T-shirts.
There are no normal spa centers in Egypt, this is not Tunisia. They understand massage in a very peculiar way. It is very rare to find a good European masseur or ours in a hotel. Arabs stupidly stroke you for half an hour, the pleasure is dubious.
LANGIS, T-shirts are T-shirts.
There are no normal spa centers in Egypt, this is not Tunisia. They understand massage in a very peculiar way. It is very rare to find a good European masseur or ours in a hotel. Arabs stupidly stroke you for half an hour, the pleasure is dubious.
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answered 15 years ago
and every year we do oil massage (from little fingers to the top of the head) and we really like it
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answered 15 years ago
naturally valuable jewelry in EGYPT is not worth buying, otherwise you can "pamper" in memory of the country
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answered 15 years ago
I agree with Langis about the massage. Very cool for the skin, because in Egypt all the time in the sun, the skin dries, and just moisturizing creams do not bring me that pleasure and relaxation as an oil massage.
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answered 15 years ago
Pachok, I agree with you)) Massage in Egypt is mostly unprofessional, if abused, you can earn oncology ((
And "cartouches" are generally a swindle, not to mention the fact that wearing tags a la an army medallion around your neck is generally indecent ((
And "cartouches" are generally a swindle, not to mention the fact that wearing tags a la an army medallion around your neck is generally indecent ((
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answered 15 years ago
There are cool casinos there)))) You can spend there. And for fur coats you need to Emirates.
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answered 15 years ago
The quality of the skin in Hurghada is disgusting, I bought it myself with a fool, now I do not recommend it to everyone. Most of the goods are made in China. Gold, silver, very poor quality, friends checked in the workshop, they laughed at them, saying that it was almost sticky. You are unlikely to succeed in shopping, it is better to swim, sunbathe, and relax.
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answered 15 years ago
I only buy fruits, everything else is Made in China, well, you never know what little things I forget or there aren’t enough cigarettes, otherwise I take money only for fruits and excursions
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answered 15 years ago
about a fur coat - merchants from the market have no idea
what is a fur coat (we made sure from our own experience) :))
there are leather products, but about the quality
I can not say anything ...
basically it is very profitable to buy hookahs in Yegi
cheaper than in Turkey and fruits
what is a fur coat (we made sure from our own experience) :))
there are leather products, but about the quality
I can not say anything ...
basically it is very profitable to buy hookahs in Yegi
cheaper than in Turkey and fruits
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answered 15 years ago
